diff --git a/Lib/init_cinderx.py b/Lib/init_cinderx.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ae286f04e0..00000000000
--- a/Lib/init_cinderx.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# ONLY USED FOR CINDERX DEVELOPMENT
-# This file is deliberately not included in the set of deep-frozen bootstrap
-# libraries so it can easily be excluded from the distribution to avoid
-# attempting to initialize CinderX. This is desirable because this code imports
-# importlib.util and some tests are surprised when they find this unexpectedly
-# loaded as part of bootstrap.
-
-import importlib.util
-
-# `cinderx` is the Python module in fbcode/cinderx/PythonLib which wraps the
-# `_cinderx` C++ extension in fbcode/cinderx/_cinderx.cpp.  Both need to be
-# available to load CinderX.
-if not (
-    importlib.util.find_spec("cinderx") is None
-    or importlib.util.find_spec("_cinderx") is None
-):
-    try:
-        import cinderx
-
-        cinderx.init()
-    except Exception as e:
-        raise RuntimeError("Failed to initialize CinderX module") from e